Overview

• AFP reports 25 serious incidents against its staff in the first half of 2025, surpassing the total for all of 2024 and signaling a sharp escalation in risk.
• CPJ counts nearly 200 journalists killed in Gaza over two years and has logged more than 20 apparent targeted attacks, with reporters describing protective gear as a liability.
• Journalists have fled the Sahel and parts of Central America such as Nicaragua and El Salvador, while reporters clearly identified as press faced violent attacks at protests in Turkey, Argentina and the United States; FOPEA recorded 179 attacks in Argentina in 2024.
• A BBC investigation found that roughly half of AI-generated answers to news questions contained major omissions or errors, prompting EBU and WAN-IFRA to press AI firms for consent-based training, fair compensation, source transparency, diversity safeguards and collaboration.
• Former Washington Post editor Martin Baron warns of a growing power imbalance favoring platforms, steep traffic declines for news outlets and the persistence of reporting work that AI cannot replace.